Joseph Lawlor of the Washington Examiner noted that some Democrats objected to the individual mandate being included in the GOP’s tax bill; for that to happen, the Supreme Court would have had to have decided that the individual mandate was a tax … oh, wait.

Dems object that Rs are inserting health care into the tax bill with individual mandate repeal. "My understanding is the individual mandate is a tax," Thune responds, referencing SCOTUS decision